The “Voice of Brahma” placed in the “Sutra Platform” by Jerry Lai, photo by Emanuele Marzi

It opened in Milan during the Salone del Mobile at Le Cavallerizze in the Museo della Scienza e Tecnologia in the area of S. Ambrogio “MEDITATION SPACE”, exhibition which is held during the twenty-first edition of Design Triennale and runs through 12th September 2016, featuring 11 architects, coming from Shanghai, presenting their ideas on spaces for meditating and elevating the spirit. Buddhism, Taoism, the concepts of energy or rather “Chi” ( known to all the ones makes tao yoga or the discipline of Tai Chi Chuan) are the source of inspiration for a new way of thinking and created, as it evidences the architect Jerry Lai who made “The voice of Brahma”, a structure made of 78 bells placed in the meditation space “Sutra Platform” taking inspiration from this tale: there were two masters questioning on a flag of the temple, which was moved by the wind. The first one thought the wind moved, instead the other thought it was the flag. They continued to discuss uselessly. The master Hui Neng said: “It’s not the wind or the flag moving, it’s just your mind moving”. Instead the architect Lien Tzu Cheng uses the traditional Buddhist philosophy– Diamond Sutra to create a silent meditation space, putting a big world in a little space and expressing «the world in your heart». The core of Zen is to think and purify the mind, this is meditation. The experience of exhibition gives the successful chance to start stabilizing the mind and discover one’s inner welfare: this is the culture of the Chinese Zen Buddhism.